Garment-hanger.



L. R.4FRANK. GARMBNT HANGER.

APPLICATION FILED KAB.. 22, 1912.

1,040, 181 Patented Oct. 1, 1912.

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GARMBNT HANGER. APPLIGATIQN FILED 111511.22, 1912.'

Patented Oct. 1, 1912.

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LEROY n. FRANK, or BANGOR, MAINE.

aannam-HANGER..

1,040,181. Specification of Ltterl'atent Patentcd0ct.1,1912.

Application med March 22, ma serial No. (585,453.

T o all whom it ma/y'wfwcm: Figure 1 is a perspective view of the de- `it known that L-Lnnor R. FRANK, a. citizen ofthe United States, residing at Bangor, -in the county of Penobscot and 5, State of Maine, have invented new and useful 'Improvements in Garment-Hangers, of which the following is a specification. v- An object of the invention is to provide a garment hanger for supporting garments so 1Q. that the same lcannot: be stolen or carried awayY by mistake.

T e invention embodies more particularly a device adapted to receive a garment, portions of 'the device being then relatively 16. docked to ported iton on the device. My evice is particularly useful for use in coat checkrooms and the like, usually vided in connection with theaters and 1Nin-which the coats and garments of the pa.a

` trollsare checked, and provided with a. numthe patron receiving a check having a4 similar number so that the particular gar-V vment: of the patron can be Vobtained at the' 5 check room -aftcr the performance upon presentation of the checkl by the patron. .It as' been found, however, that when the coats or garments are simply hungupon hooks in the check room, confusion ofttimes results andin 'consequencethereof one patron receives the garment belon 'ng to anotherperson. In order to obviate this, I rovide a device which is mounted on a liook in a chcckroom and provided with a i number and when the patron delivers his coatto the check roomthe coat is hung upon f the device and then locked thereto, the key for the lock being provided with a numeral and constituting a. check, the saidkey being then delivered to the patron. The garment, therefore, cannot be taken from the device on the hook 'until after thev performance when the patron ret-urns with the check key and delivers the same to the person in charge of the check room, thus enabling the person, to first locate the device upon which the particular coat is mounted and then unlock the device to remove the coat therefrom and convey the same to the. patron.

In the further disclosure of the invention. reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings constituting a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference denote corresponding parts in all the views, and in which* retain a garment in locked supvice showing the same vmounted on a hook in the coat check room, the device being in -open position to receive a. coat oxgarment. `1*`ig. 2 is a front elevation showing the rarment mounted on the device and lored thereto. Fig. 3 is a fragmentary 1tertical sectional view ofthe lock. Fig. is .a per- ;spective view of the check key. 1s a perspective vieu1 of a tn oditiedfoxjm of my devrce, the same eing in bpen position to receive a garment or coat. Big. 6 isv afront elevation of xthe device` disclosed .in Fig. 5, showing a coat mounted thereon; y

Referring more pa1'ticularly.;to'the views,

luse is made of a hanger member 10 having' secured at' the center thereofa shank 11, terminating in an eye 12, -the mentioned hanger member 10 being shaped similarly to the-usual garment hangers and provided Sadjacenbtheends thereof lwithslots 13. A A:pluralitv of rods 14, 15 are mounted to' ex- :tend through the slots 13 and are-' rovided ,at the' up er ends therecfwith. lieacs A16, the gsaid, hen s bein larger than the slots 13 to retain the ro s 14, 15 depending position c'n the hanv'er member l10. Secured to thc lower cnd ofathe rod 15 is a suitable lock 17 and mounted to swing on the lower end 4of the rod 14 is a lockin rod 18 having the free end thereof provi ed with anY inlentation 19, the mentioned free end being vadapted tc extend into the casing of the `lock 17, to be engaged by a locking bolt 20Y ,mounted in the lock 17, the end of the locklng bolt being adapted to extend into thc indentation 19, thus lockin the rod 18 in Arigid position. The lock 1 can he of any preferred design and can be rigidly secured to the lower end ofthe rod 15 in any suitable manner.

In Fig. 3 I disclosea form of lock that can be employed in connection with mvvdevice and in which' the lower end of therod 15 extends into the casing 21 of the lock, a

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plurality of rivets 22 `being mounted to extend through thc casing 21 and the rod 15 to rigidly secure the lock to the rod. The bolt 20, mounted to swing on .a pin 23 in the casing 21 is engaged by an expansible spring 24 seated in a lug 25 having one end thereof constituting a stop to limit the movement of the locking 'od 18 when the" same is inserted -in the casing`21. The bolt .20 is provided with an extension .26'adepted to byl a 'beard''of' a key 28, shown 1n Big. 4.' ft; '.In'vjLv-I disclose -a hOOk 29, comprising'ja.' pate. forv attachment toa wall 31, alhook meilbei 89 being arranged to extend upwardly; the' ,plate .'30 and having formed a downwardly extending `xr1 e'ni\ber'33'Il .the upwardly extending h oolrmember: being provided to receive a the'downwardly extendin hook member being to extend't rou h the eye lormed on the upper' end of t e shan'k 11, to lthe hanger member 10,

the downwardly extending hook member bei bent rearwardly so that when the hook mem 33 is passed through the eye 12 and of a'patron, the rod 14,' together with the locking rod 18 is passed throu h'one of the sleeves of the coat and-the 15V is passed through the other 'sleeve-fof the coat, the

' so thatth person in l room can easily dxacenll e number of the' being coat at the Aslll'oulders beingtheninounted -upon and supported 'by the hanger member l0. The lower ends of the -rods 14 and 15 will extend beyond. the lower ends ofthe sleeves and the; locking, rod 18 is then swung so that the free end thereof will extend into the look 17 and the bolt mjfthereof, atated by thesprin 24, extend into the indentation 19 `o the'locking rod, thusri `dly locking the locking rod to the .lock 'an'i retaining the coat'in locked position upon the device, it being readily seen by referring to Fig. 2 that by constructing my device as'des scribed, the coat is 'gracefull i .held u njthe device and supportedthere y so atl' thc coat wllnot ,tend'to lose its sha e while supported on the hanger. T'ow assumingY that the particualrfhan er upon which the coat'has been mounte -is numbered'55, as shownvby a plate-34 secured to Ehe'wall 31, adajcent thehook 29 and provided withthe numeral l55, when the coatt has been-properly positioned on the hanger,

thepeeop i' chargeof the checkroom d0- livers'patron the key` 28 v having' the numeral 55 thereon,"the said' keybein disclosedin Fig. 4 :and 'having the han le '35 thereof` provided with the numeral- 55. It will nowlbeseen that a' coat cannot betaken from'the hanger without unlocking the rod 18 from the lock 17 and the coat 1s, 'there-' not only mounted upon the hanger so that 1the' same not lose .its sha e, but the Vcoatfs locked to thef4 gerjan arranged rge of 'the check hanger upon the coat `is mounted.

; the key, havino' ition v,as shown in Now when the patron retu'n`s,lhe delivers the number '55 thereon,'to the person in charge of the check room and theperson after noting the number of the han er-that coincideswith the number of the ey, proceeds 4to a ply the key to the lock of .thelhan eran 'unlocks,the rod 18 ered'to the patron, 1t bein understood that each hanger is provided with va diierent key having a diterentnumeral thereon and that of another hanger. Therefore, in the use of the device described, a coatcannot be stolen or cannot be taken from the-hanger by the person in charge of the check room' in the assumption that the coat `belongs to another are checked in checkrooms and are simply placed upon `vhangers mounted therein and Y aving certain numerals offdesi ationythe ordinary. coin-like checks being elivered to the.patrons yvhosecoats are mounted upon thehngers.

In Figs. form omy device' l,inj-whichjI- provide a providcdwith hooks'42, A43, the lowerend of the plate being curved outwardly and up- 46 being mounted' to extend into'the slots,

-44 so thatvthe lrods 455461wi1l beheld in dependn position uponV the hanger member 4Q.

to theloek disclosedin- -Fig.3 and the menead oflzi locking ro 49 mounted to swing on the lower end ofthe rod45, the menarrangement, and vconstruction' to the rods 14,' 15 and 18 rspectively of the preferred form'of my device.

In the use of the modifiedV form described, the rods 45 end '4mre 'f through the sleeves of thezt'and t e upper end of the coat isA then mounted Ionthehook 43, the

vwhich the free en, of the locking rod 49. is engaged with the lock48 thus lookin the coat to the hanger. It should be note that although' the hanger described 1n the pre- -ferred form of my device retains theshape of the coat in view ofthe construction of the hanger, the hanger disclosed mthe modified form, is of smaller dimensions and therefore, a large number of thev hangers Tdisclosed in Figs, 5 andv 6 can be mounted on the walls of a coat room, whereas only a few of the hangers disclosedm Figs. 1 and 2 can be mounted on the walls of the coat room' in view" of the fact that the hanger tionedloclc 4S nda ted 'to receive the free" from th'cflock'l after which vthe coat can be readily takemfrom the hanger and delivthc key for one hanger .will not fit the-lock person asis ofttimes the case when coats Y l hanger member `10Q-comprising a plate`41 wardly and provided with slots 44, rods 45,

the n per ends .of the-rods being provided with. eads 47, of a larger size than the slots' he lowerend of the, rod` 46 termi- `natesinla lock' 48,-said lock being similar tinned rods45, 46 and 49'being similar in.V

hook 42 being ada tedfto receive a han-after 5 andg lA dislosegamodifed Y diseimsed in Figs. 1 :ind 2 lifm-'ers :t greutel` uren'of the wullof the room thun the hzlhger l extend through the said slots, heads formed on the said rods for retaining the same' in engagement with the snid hunger melnher, :t locking rod mounted to swing on one of the said rods und a lock on theother rod and adapted te be engaged by the said locking rod.

2: In a garment hanger, the combination v15 i,

\\'ith whnvngernleinher provided with a pluradity of slots, of rodl monntedto siidztly extend through the sid slots, heads formed on thesuid rods for retaining the same in. engagement with thehglid hanger member 20 :Ind nit-:ms for relatively locking thelower ends of the said rods.

In testlnon y whereof I aix my signaiture' in preseneeof two witnesses.

IL FRANK. 

